(Asia)

Reference: MMS2753
Author Giuseppe ROSACCIO
Year: 1594 ca.
Zone: Asia
Printed: Venice
Measures: 170 x 130 mm
€350.00

Reference: MMS2753
Author Giuseppe ROSACCIO
Year: 1594 ca.
Zone: Asia
Printed: Venice
Measures: 170 x 130 mm
€350.00

Description

Charming wood block map of by the Italian XVIth and XVIIth century writer, humanist and cartographer Giuseppe Rosaccio. Taken from one of the editions of "Teatro del cielo e della terra" and also insert in "Le sei età del Mondo" or "Il Mondo e sue parti", works by Rosaccio himself.

The book was very popular and many edition where printed in Treviso, Bologna, Florence, Verona, Venice, Viterbo from 1594 and 1688.

The maps are printed from two wood block except the last edition of 1688.

Woodcut, laid down on antique mounting, in very good conditions.

Giuseppe ROSACCIO Pordenone circa 1530 – Venezia 1621

physician, travel writer, geographer, cosmographer and cartographer, he is known for some geographical and cosmographical works, which, although not large volume, brought him some fame and was reprinted several times. Among them the Teatro del Cielo e della Terra (Venezia 1595), Mondo e le sue parti, cioè Europa, Affrica, Asia et America (Verona 1596), il Microcosmo (Firenze 1600), iMondo elementare e celeste (Treviso 1604), il Discorso sulla nobiltà ed eccellenza della Terra (Firenze). He also supervised an edition of Ptolemy's Geography, printed in Venice in 1599, accompanied with some Discorsi and 42 new tables. He is also the author of a large map of the world (Venice 1597), a large map of Italy (Florence 1609) and one of Tuscany (Florence 1609). In all these works, however, shows little originality. (Almagià)

Giuseppe ROSACCIO Pordenone circa 1530 – Venezia 1621

physician, travel writer, geographer, cosmographer and cartographer, he is known for some geographical and cosmographical works, which, although not large volume, brought him some fame and was reprinted several times. Among them the Teatro del Cielo e della Terra (Venezia 1595), Mondo e le sue parti, cioè Europa, Affrica, Asia et America (Verona 1596), il Microcosmo (Firenze 1600), iMondo elementare e celeste (Treviso 1604), il Discorso sulla nobiltà ed eccellenza della Terra (Firenze). He also supervised an edition of Ptolemy's Geography, printed in Venice in 1599, accompanied with some Discorsi and 42 new tables. He is also the author of a large map of the world (Venice 1597), a large map of Italy (Florence 1609) and one of Tuscany (Florence 1609). In all these works, however, shows little originality. (Almagià)